Ro Khanna

Rohit "Ro" Khanna (13 September 1976-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-CA 17) from 3 January 2017, succeeding Mike Honda.

Biography
Rohit Khanna was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1976, the son of Punjabi immigrants. He worked as an intellectual property lawyer before being appointed to the role of deputy assistant secretary in the US Chamber of Commerce by President Barack Obama in 2009. In 2011, he retired from the Chamber to join a law firm in the Silicon Valley of California, and he became an economics professor at Stanford University. In 2016, he was elected to the US Congress from California's 17th district, and he supported a progressive economic platform.